{"id":2368,"date":"2026-10-09T10:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T05:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2026-10-09T10:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T05:03:47","slug":"japan-pm-vows-to-keep-watching-yen-inflation-moves-carefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2368","title":{"rendered":"Japan PM vows to keep watching yen, inflation moves carefully"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Friday the government will \u200bcontinue to scrutinise exchange-rate and price \u200cdevelopments carefully, and respond appropriately.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Takaichi remarked in parliament in response to a \u200bquestion from an opposition lawmaker on \u200bJapan\u2019s economic policy and the potential fallout \u2060from a weak yen<\/p>\n<p>She also said \u200bthe administration will guide fiscal policy \u200bby looking at various factors that affect the economy, including interest rates and yen moves<\/p>\n<p>The remarks follow \u200bthose by Takaichi in parliament on \u200bThursday that Japan\u2019s economy no longer needed reflationary policies \u200cbecause \u2060it was not experiencing deflation<\/p>\n<p>Takaichi also told parliament on Thursday the government is fully respecting the Bank of Japan\u2019s \u200bindependence in \u200bsetting monetary \u2060policy, suggesting it would not push back against further interest-rate \u200bhikes<\/p>\n<p>Once an advocate of loose \u200bfiscal \u2060and monetary policy, Takaichi is under pressure from markets to reverse course, with investors\u2019 \u2060concern \u200bover Japan\u2019s worsening finances \u200band rising inflation pushing down the yen and bond \u200bprices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Friday the government will \u200bcontinue to scrutinise exchange-rate and price \u200cdevelopments carefully, and respond appropriately. Takaichi remarked in parliament in response to a \u200bquestion from an opposition lawmaker on \u200bJapan\u2019s economic policy and the potential fallout \u2060from a weak yen She also said \u200bthe administration will guide fiscal policy \u200bby looking at various factors that affect the economy, including interest rates and yen moves The remarks follow \u200bthose by Takaichi in parliament on \u200bThursday that Japan\u2019s economy no longer needed reflationary policies \u200cbecause&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}